A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.
A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.
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Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 246d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 246d
So, not independent. Cool.
Fuckheads.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 246d
Not anymore — there is no way they'd have gone along with this if it was a Democrat swapping out officials to his every whim
santa@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 246d
Isn’t SCOTUS an independent body? If so, does this green light their removal if a President wants to remove someone?
silence7@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 246d
Congress can remove a justice with a majority vote in the house and a 2/3 supermajority in the Senate. This means you can't actually remove a judge unless they lose support from within their own party, and the Republicans have shown that they wont go along with removal no matter what.
This means that in practice, the path forward is to add additional judges, so that the Republicans are a minority, and unable to do any damage.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 246d
What if they want to remove one as an “official act”?
I think this is all horrible, but I really want them to eat their own dog food.
Srh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 246d
They are not members of the executive branch while the ftc and nlrb board members are.
Srh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 246d
Yes but different branch of government.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 245d
That's had zero meaning so far.
Srh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 245d
If you mean in the instance of the rule of law yes. But the theory that the president is making is that as the head of the exec he should be able to control the exec. including independent boards and committees. So to answer the original question they will say the difference is the supreme Court is the judicial branch.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 246d
I dunno who wrote this but most of the conservative justices seemed against it. Implying that if it is overturned a president could use it to make every commission independent jam in appointees with lifetime positions and no one could do anything about it.
They seem to understand they don't have actual party support anymore.